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Oscar López Rivera

Liberation

b. 1943

FALN member imprisoned for 36 years for seditious conspiracy, released 2017, longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner

Oscar López Rivera is a Puerto Rican independence activist and member of the FALN. He served in the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star Medal. In 1981 he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 55 years in federal prison; he served 36 years, much of it in solitary confinement, before President Obama commuted his sentence in January 2017.

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